goPolygottal

Project goPolyglottal

This project was made during a one-week sprint at Code Chrysalis Tokyo. The aim is to dabble into one language during one week and learn similarities and differences with Javascript (the main language taught at Code Chrysalis)

Summary 🧑‍💼

This app uses Go to create a simple REST API server. The front-end pages are served using Go's template engine. The database contains information regarding companies potentially recruiting in Tokyo. (This API was the first step towards creating a tool enabling users to record useful data regarding their job hunt).

Screenshot 🖥️

Thanks to particles.js for the cool particle animation and CSS Gradients for the CSS gradient.

Installation 🤔 and how to run 🏃

Installation

1. Clone the repo to your local machine.
2. Install PostgreSQL
3. Create a Postgres database.
4. Run psql utility
5. Run CREATE DATABASE mydatabase; (replacing mydatabase by your name of choice)
6. Create a .env file storing variables (look at the example.env file if you need assistance)
7. From the terminal, go to the proper folder and run go run main.go
8. With a web browser, visit the page http://localhost:8000 to see the main page! 🎉

Next features

• Using Go's testing package to do robust unit tests and integration tests
• Make database configuration more flexible (.env file)
• Using Docker to deploy easily images of this program

References 🙏

• Official Golang page and API
• Go by examples And for some fun,
• Design your gopher

License 👈

This repository is provided under the terms of MIT License